Hiding out….

So there’s a guy at my gym who comes almost every day in full hunting camouflage and I can’t help but wonder, who is he hiding from? I totally get the wearing camouflage while hunting thing, you don’t want the deer or whatever to see you. But who don’t you want see you at the gym? Is it me? Because it is not working. Though I do love when he wears the whole outfit plus the NRA hat. Hot.
Speaking of hiding. I feel like I have been living in a cave as of late. My Google reader is busting out. My email is piling up…big time. I would love to say that some crazy wonderful things were happening, but they are not. It’s just somehow my life got set on fast forward right now and I can’t ever seem to get the things I need to get done.
I originally was just making peanut butter cookies for the hubby. But I discovered that I didn’t have enough peanut butter (so odd, we are never out). So I ended up making more of a sugar cookie with a hint of peanut butter. My husband liked them all the same.
Today I went to Costco to buy more Jif. And you know what? Those (insert really bad swear word here) aren’t carrying Jif Peanut Butter anymore. Oh the horror. They are now carrying Skippy. THEN when I complain about it the woman says, they are all the same, just eat the Skippy. Oh. No. She. Didn’t. I went into great detail about what Jif was better. Sadly it fell on deaf ears. So I had to buy it full price at the store. Boo.
To add more peanut butter flavor to these I made a Nutter Flutter filling of basically just peanut butter and marshmallow. Made them extra yummy though. And to make things even more yummy I made a Peanut Butter Drinking Chocolate to go along with it.
I’m hoping to come out of hiding by the weekend…if not, I guess I will have to go buy some camouflage to wear.

Preheat oven to 350F.
Cream butter and sugars in a mixer on high speed, scraping down the sides of the bowl often.
Beat for about 3 minutes, until light and fluffy. With the mixer on low, add the eggs and vanilla beans, then add the peanut butter and mix well.
Add the flour, baking soda, and salt and mix on low speed until all the ingredients are incorporated. Increase the speed to medium and mix just until the dough is smooth.
Using a small ice cream scoop(or a tablespoon) form the dough into ½ inch balls and place on greased cookie sheet. Flatten cookies with a fork. Bake just until golden brown, about 10 minutes. Let cookies cool about 5 minutes and transfer to a rack to cool completely.

Adapted from Caprial’s Desserts by Caprial Pence

Nutter Fluffer Filling

¾ cup marshmallow crème
¾ cup peanut butter
2 TBSP milk

Heat marshmallow crème over low heat in a small saucepan. Remove from heat and add peanut butter and milk. Whisk until fully incorporated. Let cool.
Pipe into center of cookie and place another cookie on top to form a sandwich.

In a small saucepan, bring cream, milk, and corn syrup to a boil.
Once the mixture has boiled, chill it over an ice bath. Strain cream into a large bowl and then return the strained cream mixture to a saucepan and bring it to a boil again.
Pour the hot cream over chocolate in thirds, mixing well before adding more. Add the vanilla beans to the mixture and allow to cool.

For peanut butter milk:
In a medium saucepan, bring the milk to a boil with the sugar. Remove off heat and whisk in peanut butter. Allow to cool.

To assemble and serve:
For one cup, steam 2 heaping TBSP of the chocolate base with 1 ½ cups peanut butter milk with an espresso machine, or heat them together in a small saucepan. Serve immediately.

All I have to say is, oh wow! Mmm…PB. I totally agree with you on the Jif thing. Skippy just doesn’t compare. My google reader is also busting at the seams, but my life hasn’t been pitched into fast forward. I’m just lazy these days.

These are terrific! Mine only needed 8 minutes in the oven, you definitely want to take them out when they are still somewhat soft. I also added more fluff to the filling, I needed the whole jar to fill all the cookies, I had about 30 sandwiches. Mine were larger and didn’t look as cute as yours Pea, but thanks for a fabulous recipe.

Oh dear. Two of my favourites have been combined…again. Ok. My arm has been willingly twisted and I’ll have to bake these, Today.
To my fellow Peanut Butter lovers. I too was once a fan of normal Peanut Butter ( yes, it’s worthy of cap. locks). The name of my poison, Peter Pan with Honey. Then the shades drew open and I saw the light that is P.B Loco and then another named Peanut Butter & Co. And yet another ( albeit expensive ) light at the site of Spread the Restaurant. One hasn’t lived until they have tried a Dark chocolate infused Peanut Butter or one with Maple. The texture is amazing, it’s like nothing else on earth. I found myself in the corner of my kitchen with a spatula and an empty jar of Mighty Maple. I don’t know what happened but it was wonderful.
@Eva. Marshmallow cream is simply marshmallows that are in a thicky, delicious melted form of their square cousins. If you can’t find a jar try melting some whole large ones over the stove with a bit of milk. It will be very sticky but if you mix it right away with the other ingredients then maybe the consistency will be alright in the long-run?

i’ve had my eyes on these cookies for a while and got around to making them tonight. they are soooo good, thanks for posting. i was curious about the yield since it’s not listed but i cut the recipe in half and got 30 plus cookies. i’ll have to share them with friends and neighbors because i can’t have that many sitting around here… it’s not safe! thanks again!!!

I’m so sad. When I print out recipes from blogs, I (of course) like to include a photo. I copy and paste the whole thing onto a MS Word page, so I can let a bunch of recipes pile up to print later. And none of the photos for this recipe will copy. Boo hoo!

The cookies look great but hopefully you can find a grind your own peanut option. I am so lucky in that my market has a peanut grinder that allows me to grind at time of purchase , no sugar and its very inexpensive!

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